You wait here!Up the front steps, up the marble staircase inside, and still
Professor McGonagall didn’t say a word to him. She wrenched
open doors and marched along corridors with Harry trotting miserably behind her. Maybe she was taking him to Dumbledore. He thought of Hagrid, expelled but allowed to stay on as gamekeeper.
Perhaps he could be Hagrid’s assistant. His stomach twisted as he
imagined it, watching Ron and the others becoming wizards while
he stumped around the grounds, carrying Hagrid’s bag.
